{"id":40369,"date":"2010-07-20T08:23:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T12:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/3e2941eaa376ee09959b1faf5cd1310b"},"modified":"2010-07-20T08:23:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T12:23:32","slug":"discoverys-computer-network-undergoes-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=40369","title":{"rendered":"Discovery&#8217;s Computer Network Undergoes Checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The critical computer network that controls the space shuttle through launch, orbital operations and landing is the subject of technicians&#8217; interest today as they run checks on the system on board Discovery. There are five general purpose computers at the heart of the shuttle&#8217;s control network. Although the hardware is slow by modern standards, it is fantastically reliable and built to provide several levels of redundancy. <\/p>\n<p>  Working inside Orbiter Processing Facility-3 at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians will also conduct a flight control checkout on Discovery&#8217;s Orbital Maneuvering System in advance of the shuttle&#8217;s Nov. 1 launch on the STS-133 mission.<\/p>\n<p>  The six STS-133 astronauts are on summer vacation this week before resuming training at NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The critical computer network that controls the space shuttle through launch, orbital operations and landing is the subject of technicians&#8217; interest today as they run checks on the system on board Discovery. There are five general purpose computers at the heart of the shuttle&#8217;s control network. Although the hardware is slow by modern standards, it is fantastically reliable and built to provide several levels of redundancy. <\/p>\n<p>  Working inside Orbiter Processing Facility-3 at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians will also conduct a flight control checkout on Discovery&#8217;s Orbital Maneuvering System in advance of the shuttle&#8217;s Nov. 1 launch on the STS-133 mission.<\/p>\n<p>  The six STS-133 astronauts are on summer vacation this week before resuming training at NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shuttle-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}